Why do blow jobs get such a bad rap? We need to put an end to this anti-blow job propaganda. Everybody loves getting head, why paint it in a negative light?
Because lots of straight guys turn it into a degrading experience for young straight women. Like one step up from being peed on. Takes years for many women to discover the joys of a giving a BJ post-teenage years.
I'm w/ you on that 100%. Boys still have to work through their madonna/whore complex. That's why oral sex should be a privilege, not a right. You'd apply for a license, just like driving a car.
Working for the DOL becomes a whole lot more interesting....
You're the only link I've seen that shows both the boy pics and the girl pic. To find the guy pics, you pretty much have to go to the ad company's website. That's homophobia...even when complaining about the ad, they wouldn't dare show simulated gay smoking fellatio.
Interesting to note that for the boys, the men are just wearing sportcoats, while for the girl, the man is coatless and has a noticeable gut. It's as if simply being male was reason enough for it to be bad for the boys, but for the girl, the man had to seem more unattractive.
Also, I'm not sure this is the best campaign, even if we ignore the issues of sexual orientation. I mean, suppose it showed a man in a suit having them on a leash wearing leather bondage gear, smoking a cigarette. Sure, a lot of people would be turned off. But some people would be like "HOT DAMN, I gotta get me some smokes!"
Meanwhile, some boys and girls will now associate sucking some older man's cock with smoking cigarettes. Which works if you think sucking older men's cocks is a bad thing... but not everyone does.
Won't somebody think of the children with a thing for older men?!
yeah, what about the people who find BJ's hot? Then again, nothing new. I read it somewhere that when Oscar Wilde spoke about smoking, what he really was referring to was oral sex.
I can't find a copy of it online, but a friend of mine in New Zealand sent me a photo of one of their ads, a cigarette with a long droopy ash and Smoking Causes Impotence on the package. That seems much more effective than Smoking Equals Blowjobs.
Hmm. I don't know what to think of this campaign. It would seem to target those young people who are most homo-averse, i.e. most guys. However, where I live the majority of smokers - of all ages - are young women. Will this scare them straight?
Pretty standard feminism 101 analysis applies here, penis=power,hence sucking dick =submission, hence homosexuals=female=powerless.
They could have done a better job. The fact that there is guy girl parity giving head doesn't make it un-sexist; that would require guy-girl parity getting head as well.
Geni @18: I've seen that ad too, and it's a hoot. Only problem is, when you run ads that are just simply lies, nobody takes a word you say seriously afterwards. Didn't they learn anything from the "war on drugs? (Smoker for 40+ years here, and definitely not impotent.)
Well it would be a turn off for any young woman who learned about blow jobs from mainstream porn. Which is where teenagers learn about blow jobs. Which is why they (and some older people too) associate blow jobs with degradation and submission.
are you KIDDING? no one has said that this promotes bad ideas about homosexuality, hate mongering, so on and so forth? I can't believe this as I was watching the video by the Onion I was thinking surely this is a joke....
What I get from the ad is just that it's degrading to be 'forced into' smoking off the corporate guy. Might turn some BDSMers onto smoking though... haha
I love the French. No holds barred, no fucking around, draw your own conclusions. Brilliant.
If any agency in this country had made that ad, imagine all of the subsets and groups that would be pissed. Too gay, not gay enough, objectifying young women, objectifying young men, objectifying old men, no lesbian overtone, no portrayal of minorities, all felatio and no cunnilingus (I think that's called a 68) on and on and on.
@20 - Exactly. This business of oral sex being the "perfect symbol of submission" really only applies culturally to fellatio. That's a goddamned misogynist double standard and on top of that, it makes very little sense to me; I've never felt the slightest bit submissive when I'm giving head.
"I have to do whaat to get a light from you?"
"I don't look particularly unhappy about this, do I?"
"Smoking: makes you lovely, caucasian and young, with cute hair, bruisey knees and no gag reflex."
"Latest Sarah Palin Speech Opens Sixth Seal"
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/lat…
Because lots of straight guys turn it into a degrading experience for young straight women. Like one step up from being peed on. Takes years for many women to discover the joys of a giving a BJ post-teenage years.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/339…
I'm w/ you on that 100%. Boys still have to work through their madonna/whore complex. That's why oral sex should be a privilege, not a right. You'd apply for a license, just like driving a car.
Working for the DOL becomes a whole lot more interesting....
it's like a stale "in soviet russia" joke... c'mon France your Emperor Napoleon guy really showed those ruskies,
don't. be. like. them.
Viva la Blowjobs!!!
These ads are simply fantastic. They get the point across mor effectively than any other youth anti-smoking campaign I have ever seen.
Fail.
Also, I'm not sure this is the best campaign, even if we ignore the issues of sexual orientation. I mean, suppose it showed a man in a suit having them on a leash wearing leather bondage gear, smoking a cigarette. Sure, a lot of people would be turned off. But some people would be like "HOT DAMN, I gotta get me some smokes!"
Meanwhile, some boys and girls will now associate sucking some older man's cock with smoking cigarettes. Which works if you think sucking older men's cocks is a bad thing... but not everyone does.
Won't somebody think of the children with a thing for older men?!
They could have done a better job. The fact that there is guy girl parity giving head doesn't make it un-sexist; that would require guy-girl parity getting head as well.
This is more of the same old shit.
Thank you! Made my day.
I love the French. No holds barred, no fucking around, draw your own conclusions. Brilliant.
If any agency in this country had made that ad, imagine all of the subsets and groups that would be pissed. Too gay, not gay enough, objectifying young women, objectifying young men, objectifying old men, no lesbian overtone, no portrayal of minorities, all felatio and no cunnilingus (I think that's called a 68) on and on and on.